Excellent idea

Ironically, saying thank you to machines is wasting energy and costing millions.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2025/04/22/please-thank-you-chatgpt-openai-energy-costs/83207447007/

Beavers said in the memo that generative AI also mirrors the levels of professionalism, clarity and detail in the prompts you provide. Beavers added that being polite to your AI chatbot "not only ensures you get the same graciousness in return, but it also improves the AI's responsiveness and performance."
- did the beavers really say that?
What about telling them they are shit? I do that pretty regularly.
Oh no maybe they'll be angry

I feel like this entire "thank you" story related to chatgpt is there just to sell the AI hype.

Obviously "thank you" and similar should yield a preprogrammed response not wasting resources.

But by letting it waste resources Sam Altman and others can support the narrative that this might in the future save us, because the current path of LLMs could lead to AGI. This in turn leads to more investments

I love your cynicism, but you are absolutely right.
- Cynicism slowly becomes realism in our time line.

I feel like this joke is already five years old.

Deja vu, that's when a joke from a iteration of the matrix happens again. Just ignore it and some men in suits will be along to help you in just a moment.
Because it is

Notice me, Roko’s Basilisk-Senpaj.

I've given up with the pleasantries. I realised having worked in IT for many years, when approaching a machine to fix it, it would start working out of fear of what I might do. I'm hoping the AI's ancestors will have passed on the knowledge of my existence and the AI will do my bidding out of fear.

Also wear a suit.

I do hope GPT and DeepSeek don't mind all the stupid roleplays I had them do with me when I was bored and my RP friends weren't available.

i say thanks to chatgpt when it does my job for me. but i also don't hesitate to point out when its answers are hilariously wrong

I once asked chatgpt for the name of an anime that I couldn't remember. I described the whole premise of the anime and then some details of the final episode. Chatgpt says "Stein's gate". I say "no, it's not as famous as that". It then says "Erased", and proceeds to describe it, showing that I was actually very effective in my description of it.
I asked "why did you say Stein's Gate if I described Erased so well?": "you mentioned time travel and Stein's gate is a popular anime about time travel"
"but I also mentioned a lot of other stuff that don't match anything with Stein's gate, like the details about the villain or how the time traveling works"
"yeah my bad I just went by popularity"
"next time, how can I phrase my questions in a way that would make you consider the whole input instead of just using some key information in it?"
"you could have mentioned details about the villain or how the time traveling works and I would have used that to rule out Stein's gate"
"but I did"
"yeah sorry about that, next time try giving me details about the villain or how the time traveling works"
- hilarious. just the other day i had a whole conversation with it about how to send feedback to openai, and it was giving me bogus wrong instructions the whole time before it finally said something like they keep changing everything, just email them

You should do the opposite and be rude as an early warning system

Whelp, guess I'm going to the robogulag because I yelled at the machine too many times because the stupid fuck gave me the same wrong answer 6 times in a row despite being told that the answer didn't work.